Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of pediatric TB—Does it work? Experience from India

• Aakshi Kalra ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: draakshikalra@gmail.com

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7402-8282

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• Debadutta Parija,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Neeraj Raizada,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• K. S. Sachdeva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Raghuram Rao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Soumya Swaminathan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Ashwani Khanna,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB office, Govt of National Capital Territory, Delhi, India

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• Kamal Kishore Chopra,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New Delhi TB Centre, New Delhi, India

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• M. Hanif,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New Delhi TB Centre, New Delhi, India

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• Varinder Singh,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lady Hardinge Medical College and Assoc Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi, India

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• K. R. Umadevi,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

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• K. N. Sheladia,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation District TB Centre, Surat Municipal Corporation, Gujarat, India

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• Rama Rao,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB Office, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

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• N. Vasundhara,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation District TB Centre, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Anil S.,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre/Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Nirmala A. R.,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre/Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Abdul Azeem,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre/Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Vijay Chhajlani,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation District TB Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Jyoti Khurana,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• N. J. Das,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Jt. Director of Health Services (TB), Directorate of Health Services, Assam, India

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• Bandana Choudhury,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Guwahati, Assam, India

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• Sreenivas Achuthan Nair,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Shalini Mall,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Rajashree Sen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Sarabjit Singh Chadha,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Claudia M. Denkinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Catharina Boehme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Sanjay Sarin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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